Women attending a suffragette club meeting wear pants, boss their husbands, neglect their kids, play poker, and fight. Their husbands stay home to care for the children and run the household.
A gentleman who's opposed to and mocks women's suffrage goes for a walk and unknowingly becomes an advertisement for it.
Hats are modelled, then lingerie.
La Pampa, Argentina. Don Genaro Gran hires gaucho Juan to capture horses and tame them. In his quest, Juan rescues a girl in trouble whose beauty unleashes Don Genaro's worst impulses.
The plot is a loose autobiographical interpretation of the life of Vernon and Irene Castle, interspersed among a typical melodrama of the period
The picture tells the story of Maria, a devoted wife of a bank employee. The couple has a cozy life; they have a baby but he is cared for by their maid so Maria can spend her time doing terrific things like going shopping. During one of these consumer afternoons, Maria meets by chance an old friend, Lidia, who will introduce her to exclusive idle class social circles. Soon Maria's beauty attracts the interest of Lebedev, a rich old libertine. From that point on Maria suffers continual sexual harassment (worthy of inclusion in any silent film encyclopedia article on beleaguered heroines) which she resists for a time. In the end, however, she falls into his bourgeois claws.
Quite possibly the first student film, a whimsical romance shot in 1916 by law students from Washington University in St. Louis.
Marianna advertises for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Appreciative of her sensitive, artistic nature, and of her youthful innocence and purity, Dymov is protective of Marianna and shields her from the attentions of his philandering playboy son. Marianna confesses to her fiancé Sergei that, at times, she feels deeply conflicted, drawn by the seductive lure of wealth and luxury. When her protector Dymov dies, his son begins to pursue her. Can Marianna resist her attraction to the opulent lifestyle that Dymov's son offers?
Овдовіла мільйонерка Хромова всю свою любов віддає дочкам — рідній Мусі та прийомній Наті. Обидві доньки закохані в князя Бартінського, світського чепуруна й марнотратника. Князь відповідає взаємністю Наті, але дізнавшись, що за неї дають невелике придане, одружується з Мусею. Ната теж виходить заміж за іншого, проте почуття до Бартінського не згасають і закохані забувають про перестороги…
Частково збережений німий фільм розповідає про підготовку до антиєврейського судового процесу в Києві за брехливим звинуваченням Менделя Бейліса в убивстві з ритуальною метою християнського хлопчика. Стрічка ґрунтується на реальних подіях.
First film by a woman and the first film directed at a child audience in Argentina
Paula is a circus performer married to the alcoholic clown-acrobat Lorio. Lorio's heavy drinking leads to him being severely injured during a performance. This forces Paula and the now-crippled Lorio to become street musicians. This film formerly ran to 81 minutes – regrettably, the second half is considered lost.
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of Russian cinema.
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Дві молоді людини Джек Пауелл і Девід Армстронг з одного невеликого містечка закохані в Сільвію Льюїс. Однак Сільвія відповідає взаємністю Девіду, а Джек не помічає закохану в нього сусідську дівчину Мері Престон. Після вступу США в Першу Світову війну юнаки потрапляють в авіаційний корпус і стають не тільки асами, а й друзями. Намагаючись бути ближче до Джека, Мері приєднується до жіночого механізованого корпусу, але війна охопила великі відстані і вони майже не зустрічаються. Один єдиний раз Мері знаходить Джека в звільненні, але в такому вигляді, що він її не впізнає і зустріч сумно закінчується для самої Мері. Між тим, між друзями відбулася сварка, і вони відлітають у бій, не примирившись, що в підсумку призводить до трагічної розв'язки — це війна…
In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.
A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.